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and I’m thinking we here in the Valley of the Sun will be living in limbo for quite some time. I thought about a timeline of events but I’m sure that’s been done somewhere.

Read about it @ Daily Censored

I have updates:

I wrote about CCA and the ‘connect the dots’ reasoning – In March Gov. Brew cancelled the contracts with CCA as part of her balancing the budget act. I’m still not sure how this will play out – is it State or is it Federal? The State has made it a crime to be illegal so wouldn’t the state have to pursue deportation? What if the person detained is an American Citizen without documentation? How is this suppose to work?

The problem as I have read is that a majority of the SB1070 enforcement relies heavily on ICE. There appears to be this vast assumption that ICE will immediately stop what they are doing and jump when the Sheriff or PD calls.

Imagining the conversation:

AZ: “We have someone here that we suspect is illegal.”

ICE: “Okay”

AZ: “Uhmm, do we drop them off or will you come get him?”

ICE: “Can I put you on hold?”

20 minutes later -

ICE: “AZ, you still there?”

AZ: “Yep, we’re still here. So what’s going to happen?”

ICE: “Yeah, well, doesn’t your law say that it’s a state crime?”

AZ: “Well yes but we figured we would give you guys first dibs being Federal trumps State law and all.”

ICE: “Right, well we didn’t pick him up – you did, so technically that would be your jurisdiction and with that can I put you on hold again?”

20 minutes later –

ICE: “AZ, I’ve been told that we will take the information for the person you have there and run it through our d-base but we will not detain him in our facility until that information has been verified.”

AZ: “What? How long is that going to take?”

ICE: “We’ll get back to you in a few days.”

AZ: “Why won’t you take him now?”

ICE: “Because, we will not assume the liability until we have proof that he’s illegal, it’s your state law you hold him.”

Will the Federal Government assume liability for detaining an American Citizen? I don’t think so.

(Thought about Feasibility Study)

Feasibility: capable of being done or carried out <a feasible plan>… granted you don’t need a study to determine if something is going to work every time you go to initiate a new idea or law BUT when it comes to expenses it might be a good idea to pretty much determine if something is feasible prior to making an investment. State Immigration Reform is an investment and interestingly enough no one seems to know exactly how it’s suppose to work. 

I went to see ’9500 Liberty’ again tonight *saw it 3 months ago* and had the opportunity to ask if either Prince William County or Arizona legislators bothered to do a feasibility study on the immigration laws – there seemed to be some confusion and a smattering of laughter. The answer I received for AZ was not on this or the other 300 plus laws – Prince William County apparently not.

(Thought about Legislation and Government)

So, here I go delving deeper into the subject of trusting legislation written by lobbyists, corporations and interest groups for communities they don’t live in without considering the impact of that legislation. There’s logic starting to work here – really it’s coming - 

ACME, Inc. wants something from government – they have their lawyers etal. write laws to accomplish this goal – they purchase a legislator or two to introduce the legislation – they hire folk to help sell it to insure that it passes – they get the votes, they get what they wrote and legislators who introduced the legislation are credited with it’s passage. That’s how it works.

So, what if I’m interested in writing a piece of legislation? I have to find a special interest group to sponsor it, lawyers to write it and a legislator to endorse it? As an average American I just don’t have that type of money so as a consequence I really don’t see myself as part of the process. THAT is what creates APATHY but it’s also why I’M A REGISTERED VOTER! 

(Thought about Movie)

Tonight was a bit disappointing – the correlation between Prince William County and Arizona is apparent all things considered with a very big difference – the Police Chief in Prince William County didn’t have a hard on for getting the Hispanics out of his county, he apparently wanted to ‘Protect and Serve’ everyone. Go figure? The suggestions were trite at best – start a blog, use youtube, get your message out but do it with civil discussion (the coffee party platform) which all seem like good suggestions right? Doesn’t work on HYSTERIA – you have to bring people back to consciousness before you can have a civil discussion and frankly even then it’s debatable. The gist of the night was you will just have to go through economic and social disarray until people start to understand that anger is not a solution and start looking for real solutions. 

(Thought about Reason)

Hmmm… how long does that take? Arizona is much larger than this Virginia county and frankly people in Arizona seem to have bought into the “I had no choice…GET THEM OUTTA HERE” Brewer election platform. This could be a long, long wait to REASON if the DOJ hasn’t presented an effective argument for Judge Bolton.

(Thought about Humanity)

There is a Humanitarian side to this as well as the ad naseum argued Monetary side. Fortunately the Humanitarian side states succinctly “Human dignity is paramount – it trumps money.” – I can accept this argument because it’s the same argument I had about healthcare and their profit over people. (Profit won in that fight and I still don’t have healthcare and I don’t like making Health Insurance Companies rich over my illness which BTW is the reason this blog exists).  

(Thought about Governor Brewer)

All about Values and Ethics? Safety and Security? Closed Border? NO – I honestly believe after all is said and done IT’S ABOUT MONEY and SB1070 is the only economic ‘plan’ for Arizona that Brewer owns. 

Self censorship is where you make a conscious effort to not offend anyone who could possibly take offense to your opinion because you just don’t know how whacked out they might be. I haven’t gone so far as to take bumper stickers off my car but I have noticed that some have taken it upon themselves to get pretty damn close before backing up. There isn’t any tolerance right now in AZ – you are either a LIBERAL baby brainwashing socialist or a righteous God loving CONSERVATIVE fascist.

American Legion Post 27 has banned Cinco de Mayo celebrations at their hall in Apache Junction which technically is their prerogative but seems a bit short sighted unless they absolutely were not making any money for their Post.

Gov. Brewer “cancelled” the Southwest Border Governors  Meeting – not all together her fault in that several Governors from Mexico said they wouldn’t attend – it’s debatable as to whether she will attend once the meeting is relocated.

Any semblance of accents appear to be gone, some people seem to be struggling a bit but they are understood – so, I’m wondering if companies have dictated English only policies – even on AZ Central on the comment boards some people are demanding comments in English only. 

There are a lot of yard sales and cars being sold and several FOR RENT signs everywhere – summer sucks here for the most part anyway.

No Mexican flags or clothes that anywhere say that you might even like anything Mexican. 

At one point I thought it would be a great idea to establish a world wide tourist attraction similar to Olvera Street along part of 16th Street – street carts, concerts, revenue and all – now I don’t think the businesses along 16th Street are going to survive and the idea would be summarily rejected anyway.

 I’m American and I’m confident with that fact. I don’t have to re-post flags, e-mail declarations, and denounce other countries. Being American gives me the opportunity to pick and choose whatever religion I want to believe, traditions I choose to observe and cultures I want to embrace. If I want to eat corned beef and cabbage and wear green on St. Patricks Day I can, if I’d rather not that’s okay too.

What is going on in AZ is corrosive – it’s only purpose is to polarize people – you don’t have to wear RED, WHITE and BLUE or bleed the American Flag to be American. We need to accept that we are all people who came from somewhere else and are united to make something better than what we left behind.  

Phoenix folk are not the most neighborly people to begin with – we don’t wave at people coming into the neighborhood – we look suspiciously at them – very independent and not all that law abiding – mucho guns – very transitory community where people stop, stay for awhile then leave. If you have lived in Phoenix for as long as I have these are understood – we don’t make eye contact – leads to conversations.

There has been an abundance of eye contact in public lately that frankly is unsettling. It’s not exactly friendly or any looks that are an invitation to converse so I’m comforted with that knowledge. Mostly a longer than fleeting glance in my direction and the once over (ughh). I don’t know what others are thinking because it’s Phoenix and it’s always better to dismiss rather than ensue any line of communication with a total stranger. So, I’ve started doing the same thing back – doesn’t make it better just some uncomfortable back at you – the wait and see what’s going to happen next feeling is apparent but one thing seems for sure trepidation is in the air – or maybe it’s just the summer dreads?

As I go back through my family tree using ancestry.com I came across a 1930 census where the family on my father’s side (mostly born in Tucson, AZ) were listed as ‘white’ even though my great, great grandmother was born in Mexico and spoke Spanish. This started me on some deductive reasoning – how could Josefa Valenzuela be considered ‘white’? Theodore W. Allen: “‘Race’ and ‘Ethnicity’: History and the 2000 Census” and then I speculated – are there ‘white’ Americans? Was there ever any ‘white’ Americans? If you mix French, Italian, Native Indian and Spanish you get what you get. The US Census tells us what we are as a nation and what if that has been grossly inaccurate since it was conceived?

I also listened to David Bacon – How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants and start wondering about oh little things like “Innocent till proven guilty” and the justice system as a whole.

Which invariably leads me to The Business Of Detention» Blog Archive » PROFITS and maybe I can find some sense somewhere so where else to look?

Contributions to BREWER, JAN | Follow The Money – yep – a cluster of contributors from Tennessee – employers = Corrections Corp. of America (CCA)  - make that $1220.00 in campaign contributions in total.

Understanding that this is the USA and making a profit off of any human condition is normal. CCA apparently recognized the demand and is more than willing to provide the supply (economics 101) and I imagine there are several other companies who will profit quite handedly off the illegal immigration issue as well. I also imagine they too will see the benefits of contributing to Jan Brewers campaign and it’s all okey dokey by the law.

Ethical? Not exactly – this is where Campaign Finance Reform has to be addressed.